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Cisco last week reported higher sales and profits for its first quarter, a strong signal that corporate spending on networking equipment is rebounding after two years of declines. Cisco earned $1.09 billion for the three months ended Oct. 25 compared with a profit of $618 million for the same period last year, while sales jumped […]

Two weeks after launching Office 2003, Microsoft has released its first update to the productivity suite. The Office 2003 Critical Update, dated Tuesday, Nov. 4, on the companys support site, fixes a problem that can cause the loss of graphic content in certain Word 2003, PowerPoint 2003 and Excel 2003 documents. According to the warning, […]

3Com this week will unveil new trimode WLAN access points and client cards. Due later this month, the products support 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g, according to 3Com officials. The new product line includes access points with prices ranging from $749 to $1,099, depending on the number of clients supported; a PCI adapter for $135; and […]

Smaller is better, certainly for notebook computers and their processors. However, the bane of low-power chips has been current leakage, a problem that drains away much of the energy savings on smaller processors. Intel engineers last week announced a breakthrough aimed at minimizing this leakage at the International Workshop on Gate Insulator. The improvements will […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. will announce the acquisition of e-mail archiving startup Persist Technologies Inc. Tuesday, sources close to both companies said. Persist, of Pleasanton, Calif., makes object-based software called AppStor. HP is already a reseller of the technology, which is due for a wide-area version this winter, officials said in July. Officials of HP, in Palo […]

When Microsoft showed a prototype of software code-named “Wallop” at last months Professional Developers Conference, few attendees understood exactly what they were seeing. And the fact that Microsoft is sequestering Wallop behind a corporate firewall, allowing only a small number of researchers and their contacts to test the software, isnt helping to clarify matters. But […]

In life-and-death decisions, people want facts. Health insurance with “medium” coverage doesnt cut it at the emergency room, and the nations vague multicolor terror-alert system has generated plenty of nervous confusion. Still, despite all of the money at stake, many businesses rely on simplistic weighted scores to measure and protect against risk. But a risk-assessment […]

Here are a variety of storage-related stories from around the Web. The subjects include storage hardware and software, as well as financial news and industry trends related to the storage market. Hardware Disk Memory Architecture Takes to IP The RDMA Consortium (Remote Direct Memory Access) recently announced completion of all planned specifications relating to the […]

Tape storage company Exabyte Corp. will get a $20 million investment from Imation Corp., which will become the exclusive reseller of Exabytes VXA and Mammoth media brands. The deal takes effect Nov. 17 and is part of Boulder, Colo., companys turnaround plan, Exabyte CEO and President Tom Ward said today. “It allows me to take […]

Here are a variety of storage-related stories from around the Web. The subjects include storage hardware and software, as well as financial news and industry trends related to the storage market. Hardware Toshiba Releases 40GB 1.8-Inch Hard Disk Drive Toshiba America Inc. last week unveiled 20GB and 40GB versions of its 1.8-inch hard disk drive […]

Impinj Inc. has been developing a tag that integrates RFID semiconductor components for inventory management. The companys tags adhere to a new standard that supports longer range and can be read much faster by a scanner than older RFID tags, the company said. The Seattle-based startup expects to begin customer testing by early 2004. Read […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. will open a center in Dallas to test Wal-Marts implementation of RFID in its inventory-management system. Wal-Mart will use the Electronic Product Code compliant RFID technology by January 2005, the company said recently. Sun makes standards-based RFID middleware software based on its Java Enterprise System. Read the full story at Silicon Valley/San […]